50 Pfennig - Schwäbisch Hall

Schwäbisch Hall had been synonymous with coinage since the medieval Heller — a coin so ubiquitous across the Holy Roman Empire that its name became a unit of account. By 1917, the city was issuing emergency zinc pieces not out of any monetary tradition but because the German war economy had consumed copper, nickel, and iron for munitions, leaving municipalities to plug the gap in small change with whatever base metal remained available.

The Funck reference places this among the documented Notgeld issues catalogued by city rather than state authority — a reflection of how fractured Germany's emergency coinage administration became in the middle war years.